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ClearFungal Laccases: Fundamentals, Engineering and Classification Update
This review covers the structure, catalytic mechanisms, and biotechnological applications of fungal laccases, a group of enzymes capable of oxidizing a wide range of aromatic compounds including lignin. Researchers discuss how protein engineering can enhance these enzymes for industrial applications such as bioremediation and the breakdown of persistent organic pollutants.
Eco-Friendly Biocatalysts: Laccase Applications, Innovations, and Future Directions in Environmental Remediation
This review examines how laccase enzymes, naturally produced by fungi and other organisms, can be used as eco-friendly biocatalysts for breaking down environmental pollutants. Researchers highlight advances in enzyme immobilization and nanotechnology that have improved laccase stability and reusability for treating dyes, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and microplastic additives. The study explores hybrid systems that combine laccase with other treatment technologies to achieve more complete pollutant breakdown.
Eco‐Powered Cleanup: Laccase as a Green Catalyst for Tackling Emerging Contaminants
This review examines laccase, a multicopper oxidase enzyme, as a green biocatalytic tool for degrading emerging contaminants including PFAS, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and pesticides in soil and water, presenting it as a cost-effective bioremediation alternative.
White Rot Fungi as Tools for the Bioremediation of Xenobiotics: A Review
This review examines how white rot fungi use specialized enzymes to break down a wide range of toxic pollutants including synthetic dyes, pesticides, and emerging contaminants like pharmaceuticals. While not specifically about microplastics, these same fungal enzymes are being explored as potential tools for biodegrading plastic waste in contaminated environments.
Potential of Laccase as a Tool for Biodegradation of Wastewater Micropollutants
This review evaluates the potential of laccase enzymes, primarily from fungi and bacteria, to break down micropollutants in wastewater including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and endocrine-disrupting compounds. Researchers found that laccase-based treatments offer an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional chemical methods for removing these contaminants. The study also discusses how immobilizing laccases on support materials can improve their stability and reusability in water treatment systems.
Oxidoreductases as a versatile biocatalytic tool to tackle pollutants for clean environment – a review
This review assessed oxidoreductase enzymes — including laccases, peroxidases, and oxidases — as biocatalytic tools for degrading emerging pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and estrogens, evaluating reaction mechanisms and prospects for industrial-scale environmental remediation.
Fungal Enzymes Involved in Plastics Biodegradation
Researchers reviewed the current literature on fungal enzymes capable of degrading various types of plastic polymers. The study cataloged different enzyme classes including laccases, peroxidases, and cutinases, describing their characteristics and efficacy against specific plastics. Evidence indicates that fungi offer a promising biological approach to plastic biodegradation due to their diverse array of enzymes specialized in breaking down recalcitrant substances.
Novel approaches for removing emerging contaminants from sludge using fungal-mediated processes
Researchers reviewed fungal-mediated processes for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater sludge, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals. The study suggests that fungi offer unique biodegradation capabilities through biosorption, enzymatic degradation, and combined treatment methods, presenting a promising bioremediation approach for persistent pollutants.
Using Fungi in Artificial Microbial Consortia to Solve Bioremediation Problems
Researchers reviewed the use of artificial microbial consortia containing fungi for cleaning up environmental contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, dyes, and pesticides. They found that combining fungi with bacteria in engineered communities can enhance the breakdown of pollutants more effectively than single organisms working alone. The study suggests that fungal-based bioremediation consortia offer a promising eco-friendly strategy for tackling diverse types of environmental pollution.
Fungal bioassays for environmental monitoring
This review assessed fungal bioassays as tools for environmental monitoring of pollutants including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and plastics in air, soil, and water. Fungi were highlighted as particularly sensitive bioindicators whose degradative and biosorptive capabilities make them valuable for both detecting contamination and remediation.
A Comprehensive Insight into Fungal Enzymes: Structure, Classification, and Their Role in Mankind’s Challenges
This review provided a comprehensive overview of fungal enzymes, their structure, classification, and diverse applications across industries from baking to bioremediation. The study highlights that fungi produce more than 50% of the enzymes needed in industry, with the advantage of extracellular production allowing large-scale manufacturing at lower cost.
Fungal-Based Remediation in the Treatment of Anthropogenic Activities and Pharmaceutical-Pollutant-Contaminated Wastewater
This review examines how fungi can be used to break down pharmaceutical pollutants and personal care product residues in wastewater, which have increased since the global pandemic. Researchers found that various fungal species and their enzymes show promising ability to degrade these chemical contaminants through biological processes. The study suggests that fungal-based remediation could offer a cost-effective and environmentally friendly complement to conventional wastewater treatment methods.
The hidden power of secondary metabolites in plant-fungi interactions and sustainable phytoremediation
This review explores how plants and fungi produce secondary metabolites that play important roles in their interactions with each other and can be harnessed for cleaning up contaminated environments. Researchers examined how fungal compounds help plants tolerate pollutants like heavy metals and microplastics in soil. The findings suggest that leveraging plant-fungi partnerships could offer sustainable, nature-based approaches to environmental remediation.
Sustainable Degradation of Plastic and Pharmaceutical Waste using Fungal Strains Based Strategies
This review examines fungal-based bioremediation strategies for degrading synthetic plastics and pharmaceutical waste, focusing on filamentous and ligninolytic fungi and the enzymatic pathways they employ. The authors position fungal biodegradation as a cost-effective and eco-friendly alternative to conventional landfilling, incineration, and chemical recycling for persistent environmental contaminants.
Fungal Bioremediation of Microplastics
This review examines how fungi can be used for bioremediation of plastic pollution, covering the enzymes and metabolic pathways involved in fungal plastic degradation. Fungal approaches complement bacterial strategies and may offer unique capabilities for breaking down certain types of plastics in contaminated environments.
Marine-derived fungi as biocatalysts
This review examines marine-derived fungi as catalysts for biotransformations, highlighting their ability to produce enzymes adapted to extreme marine conditions that have applications in producing high-value compounds relevant to pharmaceutical and environmental remediation industries.
Myco-remediation of plastic pollution: current knowledge and future prospects
Researchers reviewed the growing body of evidence showing that fungi can break down common plastics — including polyethylene, polystyrene, and polypropylene — by secreting specialized enzymes that attack and mineralize plastic polymers, with many effective species coming from the Aspergillus and Penicillium families. The review calls for metagenomic approaches to discover more plastic-degrading fungi and develop them into practical bioremediation tools.
Purification and Biochemical Characterization of Trametes hirsuta CS5 Laccases and Its Potential in Decolorizing Textile Dyes as Emerging Contaminants
Three laccase isoforms from Trametes hirsuta CS5 were purified and characterized, with the ThII isoform showing the highest catalytic efficiency; all isoforms effectively decolorized synthetic textile dyes, supporting their potential as eco-friendly biocatalysts for treating dye-containing wastewater.
Role of Fungi in Biodegradation of Bisphenol A: A Review
This review examined the role of fungi in biodegrading bisphenol A, a widespread endocrine disruptor that leaches from plastics into water sources, highlighting fungal enzymes and degradation pathways as promising approaches for environmental remediation.
An overview on role of fungi in systematic plastic degradation
This review examines the role of fungi in plastic degradation, surveying fungal species and enzymes capable of breaking down common polymers and discussing their potential for sustainable bioremediation of plastic pollution in the environment.
Fungal potential for the degradation of petroleum-based polymers: An overview of macro- and microplastics biodegradation
This review examines the potential of fungi to break down petroleum-based plastics, highlighting their unique ability to produce enzymes capable of degrading complex polymers. Researchers found that certain fungal species can use plastic materials as their sole carbon and energy source, offering a promising biological approach to plastic waste remediation. The study calls for further research on novel fungal isolates and molecular techniques to enhance plastic biodegradation processes.
Enzymes in the Removal of Harmful Substances: The Potential of Biotechnology in Environmental Protection
This review examines the potential of enzymes as sustainable, highly specific tools for removing harmful environmental pollutants including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, dyes, and microplastics under mild conditions without generating toxic by-products. The authors highlight innovations in enzyme immobilisation, microbial consortia, and hybrid technologies as strategies to enhance efficiency and broaden the practical applicability of biotechnology-based environmental remediation.
Degradation potential of various enzymes in bioremediation of toxic contaminants
This review examines the potential of microbial enzymes — including proteases, amylases, lipases, and cellulases — for bioremediation of toxic environmental contaminants such as heavy metals, dyes, petroleum wastes, and oil spills. The authors argue that enzyme-based approaches offer advantages over chemical catalysts in terms of cost, stability, reusability, and ecological safety across industrial and environmental applications.
Fungal Degradation of Microplastics—An Environmental Need
This review highlights fungi as an underexplored but promising tool for breaking down microplastics in the environment, noting that fungal enzymes can degrade plastics that bacteria struggle with. As conventional physical and chemical methods fall short of addressing the scale of microplastic pollution, fungal biodegradation could offer a practical, scalable complement to existing cleanup strategies.